# dildo
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɪldəʊ/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈdɪldoʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪldəʊ
* Hyphenation: dil‧do

### Etymology 1

Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle. Compare the use as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs and the spelling dil doul, found in e.g. The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul, a song in the library of Samuel Pepys. Unlikely to be related to Italian diletto (“delight”) or Latin dīlātō (“I open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.

#### Noun

dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)
* A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
** An artificial penis.
*** 1592/3, Thomas Nashe, The Choise of Valentines‎ (Poetry), published 1899, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2006-02-27‎:Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust; / That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust. / Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde, / Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde. / My little dilldo shall suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.
*** 1866, “Don Leon”, in Don Leon ; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron, Author of Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. and forming part of the private journal of His Lordship, supposed to have been entirely destoyed by Thos. Moore. To which is added Leon to Annabella; An epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron.‎ (Poetry), →OCLC, pages 44, 51–52:"There, as my lord, with achromatic glass, / "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass, / "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies / "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities, / "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal.Whoever has visited Bath must have heard of a surgeon, by the name of Hicks, who pretends to cure strictures in the rectum by the insertion of bougies of enormous dimensions up the anus in male and female patients. The morning meetings of ten or a dozen persons of both sexes, all waiting to undergo the same mode of cure (for he never fails to discover stricture or tendency to stricture, in all those persons who consult him), must be ludicrous and somewhat obscene. Why does he not follow the plan of Enothea, a harlot spoken of by Petronius? "Profert Enothea scorteum fascinum, quod, ut oleo et minuto pipere atque urticæ trito circumdedit semine, paulatim cœpit insere ano meo." It may not be amiss to observe that the fascinum (Gallice godmiché, Anglice dildo) was a substitute for the human penis, known to the ancients as well as to the moderns.
* (derogatory, vulgar, slang) Any device or implement.
** 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 43:Call ghost hunters? Those fuckers will show up with gas powered dildos and burn the woods down.
* (derogatory) An idiot; a bore.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
** 1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez):I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh?
** 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 15:‘Thompson?’ Heydon-Bayley had shrieked. ‘But he’s a complete dildo, surely?’ ¶ ‘I like him,’ said Adrian, ‘he’s unusual.’ ¶ ‘Graceless, you mean. Wooden.’
* A columnar cactus of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
** 1910, Forrest Shreve, “The coastal deserts of Jamaica”, in The Plant World: An Illustrated Monthly Journal of Popular Botany, volume 13, pages 129–130:The commonest and most conspicuous of the cacti is the "dildoe" (Cereus Swartzii), a columnar form growing to as much as 20 feet in height, a plant the gross physiology of which is probably very similar to that of the sahuaro (Camegiea gigantea).

##### Derived terms

* dildo cactus
* dildo curls
* dildoless
* dildolike
* dildonics
* dildon't
* double dildo
* double-ended dildo
* double penetration dildo
* double-sided dildo
* drilldo

##### Descendants

* → Bengali: ডিলডো (ḍiloḍō), ডিল্ডো (ḍilḍō)
* → Czech: dildo
* → Danish: dildo
* → Dutch: dildo
* → Finnish: dildo
* → French: dildo
* → German: Dildo
* → Hindi: डिल्डो (ḍilḍo)
* → Japanese: ディルド (dirudo)
* → Norwegian Bokmål: dildo
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: dildo
* → Polish: dildo
* → Portuguese: dildo
* → Romanian: dildo
* → Serbo-Croatian: dildo
* → Spanish: dildo
* → Turkish: dildo

##### See also

* fleshlight
* vibrator

#### Verb

dildo (third-person singular simple present dildoes, present participle dildoing, simple past and past participle dildoed)
* (transitive) To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
** 1681, Homer Alamode, the Second Part in English Burlesque, or, Mock Poem upon the Ninth Book of the Iliads‎, page 48:And Venus (one that so much known is) / Is Dildo’d by Cauda Draconis.
** 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40:A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.

### Etymology 2

Related to other nonsense syllables like dido and diddle(-diddle), which similarly developed sexual senses. Found since at least the 1500s, often in contexts where allusion is being made to the sexual sense (above). Possibly influenced by Middle English dildoun (“darling, pet”), early modern English dildin (“sweetheart”); compare Old Norse dilla (“to lull”), dillindo (“lullaby”).

#### Alternative forms

* dildoides, dildidoes pl (17th c.)

#### Interjection

dildo
* (obsolete) A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
** c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; […] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings,
** c. 1600, Thomas Morley, Will You Buy a Fine Dog?:Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head? With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […]
** c. 1600-1636, William Sampson, The Vow Breaker:oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory?

### References

* 1 2 Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “dildo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Gordon Williams, Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdɪldo]

### Noun

dildo n
* dildo
    Synonym: robertek

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “dildo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “dildo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Noun

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoer, definite plural dildoerne)
* dildo

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɪl.doː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dil‧do

### Noun

dildo m (plural dildo's)
* dildo

#### Synonyms

* kunstpenis

#### Derived terms

* voorbinddildo

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English dildo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdildo/, [ˈdildo̞]
* Rhymes: -ildo
* Hyphenation: dil‧do

### Noun

dildo
* dildo

#### Declension

Possessive forms of dildo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dildoni
dildoni
accusative
nom.
dildoni
dildoni
gen.
dildoni
genitive
dildoni
dildojeni
partitive
dildoani
dildojani
inessive
dildossani
dildoissani
elative
dildostani
dildoistani
illative
dildooni
dildoihini
adessive
dildollani
dildoillani
ablative
dildoltani
dildoiltani
allative
dildolleni
dildoilleni
essive
dildonani
dildoinani
translative
dildokseni
dildoikseni
abessive
dildottani
dildoittani
instructive
comitative
—dildoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dildosi
dildosi
accusative
nom.
dildosi
dildosi
gen.
dildosi
genitive
dildosi
dildojesi
partitive
dildoasi
dildojasi
inessive
dildossasi
dildoissasi
elative
dildostasi
dildoistasi
illative
dildoosi
dildoihisi
adessive
dildollasi
dildoillasi
ablative
dildoltasi
dildoiltasi
allative
dildollesi
dildoillesi
essive
dildonasi
dildoinasi
translative
dildoksesi
dildoiksesi
abessive
dildottasi
dildoittasi
instructive
comitative
—dildoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dildomme
dildomme
accusative
nom.
dildomme
dildomme
gen.
dildomme
genitive
dildomme
dildojemme
partitive
dildoamme
dildojamme
inessive
dildossamme
dildoissamme
elative
dildostamme
dildoistamme
illative
dildoomme
dildoihimme
adessive
dildollamme
dildoillamme
ablative
dildoltamme
dildoiltamme
allative
dildollemme
dildoillemme
essive
dildonamme
dildoinamme
translative
dildoksemme
dildoiksemme
abessive
dildottamme
dildoittamme
instructive
comitative
—dildoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dildonne
dildonne
accusative
nom.
dildonne
dildonne
gen.
dildonne
genitive
dildonne
dildojenne
partitive
dildoanne
dildojanne
inessive
dildossanne
dildoissanne
elative
dildostanne
dildoistanne
illative
dildoonne
dildoihinne
adessive
dildollanne
dildoillanne
ablative
dildoltanne
dildoiltanne
allative
dildollenne
dildoillenne
essive
dildonanne
dildoinanne
translative
dildoksenne
dildoiksenne
abessive
dildottanne
dildoittanne
instructive
comitative
—dildoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dildonsa
dildonsa
accusative
nom.
dildonsa
dildonsa
gen.
dildonsa
genitive
dildonsa
dildojensa
partitive
dildoaan dildoansa
dildojaan dildojansa
inessive
dildossaan dildossansa
dildoissaan dildoissansa
elative
dildostaan dildostansa
dildoistaan dildoistansa
illative
dildoonsa
dildoihinsa
adessive
dildollaan dildollansa
dildoillaan dildoillansa
ablative
dildoltaan dildoltansa
dildoiltaan dildoiltansa
allative
dildolleen dildollensa
dildoilleen dildoillensa
essive
dildonaan dildonansa
dildoinaan dildoinansa
translative
dildokseen dildoksensa
dildoikseen dildoiksensa
abessive
dildottaan dildottansa
dildoittaan dildoittansa
instructive
comitative
—dildoineen dildoinensa :

### Further reading

* “dildo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Noun

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoer, definite plural dildoene)
* dildo

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Noun

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoar, definite plural dildoane)
* dildo

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdil.dɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ildɔ
* Syllabification: dil‧do

### Noun

dildo n
* dildo (artificial phallus)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* dildo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* dildo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dildo.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiw.du/ [ˈd͡ʒiʊ̯.du]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiw.du/ [ˈd͡ʒiʊ̯.du]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiw.do/ [ˈd͡ʒiʊ̯.do]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdil.du/ [ˈdiɫ.du]
* Hyphenation: dil‧do

### Noun

dildo m (plural dildos)
* dildo
    Synonym: (Brazil) consolo

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Noun

dildo n (plural dildouri)
* dildo

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdildo/ [ˈd̪il̪.d̪o]
* Rhymes: -ildo
* Syllabification: dil‧do

### Noun

dildo m (plural dildos)
* dildo
    Synonym: consolador

### Further reading

* “dildo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Noun

dildo c
* dildo
    Synonym: löskuk

#### See also

* massagestav (“vibrator”)
* sexleksak (“sex toy”)

### References

* dildo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* dildo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dildo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdildo]
* Hyphenation: dil‧do

### Noun

dildo (definite accusative dildoyu, plural dildolar)
* dildo